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Paul Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
“We should have a recession. People who spend their lives pounding nails in Nevada need something else to do.”
2009-11-01 to banking, bestof, economics, finance, global recession by soobrosa
Douglas Rushkoff: Economics is not natural science
The first innovation was to centralize currency. What better way for the already rich to maintain their wealth than to make money scarce?
2009-11-01 to bestof, books, business, currency, economics, history, middle class, society by soobrosa
The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good
A few years from now, strange as it may sound, we might all find that we are hungry for more capitalism, not less.
2009-06-23 to bestof, bubble, derivatives, economics, ethics, finance by lipi
Steven Levy: Secret of Googlenomics - Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
As the amount of data at Google's disposal grows, the opportunities to exploit it multiply.
2009-06-09 to auction, bestof, business, data, economics, information, statistics by soobrosa
My Manhattan Project
How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.
2009-05-06 to bestof, bond, economics, finance, global recession, mortgage, quant, software, wall street by lipi
This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize
In October 2006, Netflix announced it would give a cool seven figures to whoever created a movie-recommending algorithm 10 percent better than its own.
2008-03-06 to bestof, cinema, data, economics, internet, movies, psychology by lipi
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
Once a marketing gimmick, free has emerged as a full-fledged economy. Offering free music proved successful for Radiohead, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and a swarm of other bands on MySpace that grasped the audience-building merits of zero. The fastes
2008-03-03 to bestof, business, economics, market by bagoly
Better Than Free
When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.
2008-02-17 to business, economics, internet by lipi
Nick Paumgarten: There and Back Again
The soul of the commuter.
2008-02-04 to bestof, commuting, economics, society, travel by soobrosa
Stephen Downes: Economics in a DRM-Free World
It is important to see that free access to content has, though history, been the rule, not the exception.
2008-01-14 to bestof, business, copyright, drm, economics by soobrosa

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